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I haven’t had anything to say about the Plaxico Burress situation, mainly because I don’t find Burress to be a particularly captivating character at this point. He was already being de-emphasized in the Giants offense, and, really? If you’ve read one story about a wide receiver inadvertently discharging a firearm into his own leg (possibly while attempting to unload it), you’ve read them all.

But Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs managed to get a cute little jab in at Burress during his media session today. It starts when he’s asked if he feels there is a ‘Battle of the Beltway’ rivalry.

“I think that’s more for you all. We don’t look at it like that. This is just another day at the office. We know a lot of those guys down there. They’ve got some ‘U’ [University of Miami] boys, we’ve got some ‘U’ boys and we’re only 45 minutes away from each other. So we always bump into each other. It’s going to be a good, fun game.”

Fair enough. The answer to the follow-up question, though, actually made me laugh.

On if there are legitimate bragging rights inside the clubs and around town: “I’m not going to a night club. Haven’t you heard what happened this past week?”

Like this:

Jim Zorn has established himself here in D.C. not only as a talented young football coach, but also as a seemingly endless source of entertaining stories and quirky turns of phrase. Today’s post-practice press conference was relatively mild from that perspective – an “ab-so-LOOT-ley,” the observation that moving Sunday’s game to prime time means “We’re a team that’s still worth watching. At least we didn’t get bumped,” and that was about it.

He also seems to have been fairly laid back in his conference call with the Baltimore media, pretty much giving the expected answers to the questions he was asked. Here are his answers to the questions about fellow rookie head coach, Baltimore’s John Harbaugh.